Innovative Wood Shop Heater

Innovative wood shop heater FARM SHOP Miscellaneous 17-2-10 If you've got a building you'd like to heat with a wood stove, you'll want to take a look at this innovative setup put together by Keokuk, Iowa farmer Randy Harness. He wanted to heat both his garage and shop with wood but he didn't have a flue or a good way to move heat between the two buildings. His solution was to use a furnace blower to draw air through about 50 ft. of 6-in. pipe that runs from the stove - which is in the garage - through a wall to the shop and then outside. The blower sits outside the shop. The flue goes in the intake side of the blower and a vertical pipe with a cap on top is attached to the discharge end. To improve the draw of the blower, Harness covered the other open side of the blower. "The flue pipe goes from the stove in the garage through the wall and along the floor of the shop. At one point it goes up and over a walk-in door before exiting out through an outside wall. The heat that radiates off the pipe is enough to heat the shop. Lets me capture heat that would otherwise be lost up the chimney," says Harness. He says the furnace blower runs for less than 10 cents an hour and will keep a good fire going all night, if needed. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Randy Harness, Rt. 3, Box 252, Keokuk, Iowa 52632 (ph 319 463-5423).

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